How to format your references using the Contemporary School Psychology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Contemporary School Psychology. For a complete guide how to prepare your manuscript refer to the journal's instructions to authors.

Using reference management software

Typically you don't format your citations and bibliography by hand. The easiest way is to use a reference manager:

Paperpile	The citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNote	Find the style here: output styles overview
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and others	The style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles are usually part of a LaTeX template. Check the instructions to authors if the publisher offers a LaTeX template for this journal.

Journal articles

Those examples are references to articles in scholarly journals and how they are supposed to appear in your bibliography.

Not all journals organize their published articles in volumes and issues, so these fields are optional. Some electronic journals do not provide a page range, but instead list an article identifier. In a case like this it's safe to use the article identifier instead of the page range.

A journal article with 1 author

Epstein, I. R. (2007). Chemistry. Can droplets and bubbles think? Science (New York, N.Y.), 315(5813), 775–776.

A journal article with 2 authors

Snir, Y., & Kamien, R. D. (2005). Entropically driven helix formation. Science (New York, N.Y.), 307(5712), 1067.

A journal article with 3 authors

Krug, A. Z., Jablonski, D., & Valentine, J. W. (2009). Signature of the end-Cretaceous mass extinction in the modern biota. Science (New York, N.Y.), 323(5915), 767–771.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Bethlem, H. L., Berden, G., Crompvoets, F. M., Jongma, R. T., van Roij AJ, & Meijer, G. (2000). Electrostatic trapping of ammonia molecules. Nature, 406(6795), 491–494.

Books and book chapters

Here are examples of references for authored and edited books as well as book chapters.

An authored book

Beagle, J. R. (2013). Surgical Essentials of Immediate Implant Dentistry. West Sussex, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Yu, Z., Liscano, R., Chen, G., Zhang, D., & Zhou, X. (Eds.). (2010). Ubiquitous Intelligence and Computing: 7th International Conference, UIC 2010, Xi’an, China, October 26-29, 2010. Proceedings (Vol. 6406). Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Amft, O., Stäger, M., Lukowicz, P., & Tröster, G. (2005). Analysis of Chewing Sounds for Dietary Monitoring. In M. Beigl, S. Intille, J. Rekimoto, & H. Tokuda (Eds.), UbiComp 2005: Ubiquitous Computing: 7th International Conference, UbiComp 2005, Tokyo, Japan, September 11-14, 2005. Proceedings (pp. 56–72). Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

Web sites

Sometimes references to web sites should appear directly in the text rather than in the bibliography. Refer to the Instructions to authors for Contemporary School Psychology.

Blog post

O`Callaghan, J. (2017, January 20). You Can Now Vote On What NASA Takes Images Of Next On Jupiter. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/you-can-now-vote-on-what-nasa-takes-images-of-next-on-jupiter/. Accessed 30 October 2018

Reports

This example shows the general structure used for government reports, technical reports, and scientific reports. If you can't locate the report number then it might be better to cite the report as a book. For reports it is usually not individual people that are credited as authors, but a governmental department or agency like "U. S. Food and Drug Administration" or "National Cancer Institute".

Government report

Government Accountability Office. (2002). District of Columbia: Planned Funding and Schedule for D.C. Public Schools’ Modernization Program Are Unrealistic (No. GAO-02-815R). Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Reig, M. A. (2008). Cross-Dialectal Variability in Propositional Anaphora: A Quantitative and Pragmatic Study of Null Objects in Mexican and Peninsular Spanish (Doctoral dissertation). Ohio State University, Columbus, OH.

News paper articles

Unlike scholarly journals, news papers do not usually have a volume and issue number. Instead, the full date and page number is required for a correct reference.

New York Times article

Montague, J. (2017, October 9). Caution: Team Under Construction. New York Times, p. D1.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Epstein 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Epstein 2007; Snir and Kamien 2005).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Snir and Kamien 2005)
Three or more authors: (Bethlem et al. 2000)

About the journal

Full journal title	Contemporary School Psychology
Abbreviation	Contemp. Sch. Psychol.
ISSN (print)	2159-2020
ISSN (online)	2161-1505
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